shearwaters's Usage Examples:

The strong offshore winds saw to it that the sea produced nothing more than a few lingering Manx shearwaters and an Arctic Skua.

They catch puffins, fulmar petrels, guillemots, razorbirds, Manx shearwaters and solan geese both for their oil and for food.

We hoped that the wind would improve our chances of seeing a few shearwaters on the crossing.

The seabird movement was slow but we did see both Cory's and smaller shearwaters going past the headland.

The last census also provided the first reliable estimates of the number of breeding petrels and shearwaters, using recently developed techniques.

All over the world shearwaters seem to have precisely the same habits, laying their single purely white egg in a hole under ground.

Hundreds of shearwaters were dashing over the sea, as were a number of giant petrels.

Sea birds include shearwaters, fulmars, petrels and royal and wandering albatross.

Synonyms:

Puffinus puffinus, petrel, Manx shearwater, genus Puffinus, Puffinus,

Antonyms:

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